Here are the winners of the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational, which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
The winners are:
Cashtration: (n.) The act of buying (or building) a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize that it was your money to start with.
Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
Bozone: (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
Karmageddon: It's when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes and it's a serious bummer.
Decafalon: (n.) The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
Glibido: All talk and no action.
Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Arachnoleptic Fit: (n.) The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
Beelzebug: (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
Caterpallor: (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
And the winners are:
Coffee, (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.
Flabbergasted, (adj.) appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
Abdicate, (v.) to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
Esplanade, (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk.
Negligent, (adj.) absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
Lymph, (v.) to walk with a lisp.
Gargoyle, (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.
Flatulence, (n.) emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
Balderdash, (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.
Pokemon, (n.) a Rastafarian proctologist.
Oyster, (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
Frisbeetarianism, (n.) the belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
6 comments:
Mensa you say? Hmmm...
Here's another:
"D" (pronounced "Dee")
What Seamus gets every night despite his dilligent work. Oh yeah!
Okay, my bad...
WW, thanks, that was neat!
Pabs, take 2 steps back and set the Molson on the ground!
LOL That was horrible!
*boo* *boo*..
CLARIFICATION: Some nights, more than once...twice....*winkin*
That was some funny stuff. It would be fun to make up my own list.
Maybe soon, we'll see. Maybe I'll hold a contest on my blog.
Great list. I am going to have to share it!
That was super! I forced my husband to listen. I am a word junkie and he's not. You can imagine the depth of affection required for him to sit,politely smile,listen and pretend to be engaged while I'm laughing loudly at "sarchasm" and "pokemon".
"Sarchasm! Get it? No? Sar-chasm... Chasm, -ch- Now? Oh, seriously! This is funny stuff! Pretend to laugh!"
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